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If he can successfully derail this thread he needs to fire off an email to [email protected].

Does it need to be successful for the complaint to be valid? Personally, I don't care to scroll through mounds of irrelevant posts. I tried to be affable by going along with the alien jokes but obviosuly it wasn't good natured.

Originally Posted by subego

I think it's appropriate to discuss in one of the Russia threads the contrast in coverage so far.

It has nothing to do with the Russia thing. Compare contrast it in the general news thread if you want. Or a fresh thread. I'm sick of this thread being a dumping ground for any negative articles about dems because its a monument to how much lying his campaign and administration have done.

Is this the right thread? Or maybe this is better suited to the "how do you feel about Russia thread."
And then the obvious happens - he gets arrested and deported, and everybody that's working on his side gets imprisoned, poisoned, thrown off a building, or just murdered.

Finally got to read this today. I can see why you posted it in here.

Sergei refused. In spite of the grave pain they inflicted upon him, he would not perjure himself or bear false witness.

This guy is inhuman. I have no idea how you have the nuts to endure a sliver of what he did and not break.

The lawyer who represented Sergei Magnitsky’s mother, Nikolai Gorokhov, has spent the last six years fighting for justice. This spring, the night before he was due in court to testify about the state cover up of Sergei Magnitsky’s murder, he was thrown off the fourth floor of his apartment building. Thankfully he survived and has carried on in the fight for justice.

I'm pretty sure this guy was in the piece I was referring to earlier. I tried googling it today but came up empty. Unfortunately I think it was something I discovered in my twitter feed last month or two. I also remember it was a very, very long read.

When asked by a group of journalists about the death of Sergei Magnitsky, Medvedev replied, “It’s too bad that Sergei Magnitsky is dead and Bill Browder is still alive and free.”

That is god damn chilling. Given the amount of people Putin has supposedly killed in the UK, i don't udnerstand how this guy can reside there.

Veselnitskaya, through Baker Hostetler, hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against me and Sergei Magnitsky in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act. He contacted a number of major newspapers and other publications to spread false information that Sergei Magnitsky was not murdered, was not a whistle-blower, and was instead a criminal. They also spread false information that my presentations to lawmakers around the world were untrue.

Does it need to be successful for the complaint to be valid? Personally, I don't care to scroll through mounds of irrelevant posts. I tried to be affable by going along with the alien jokes but obviosuly it wasn't good natured.

It has nothing to do with the Russia thing. Compare contrast it in the general news thread if you want. Or a fresh thread. I'm sick of this thread being a dumping ground for any negative articles about dems because its a monument to how much lying his campaign and administration have done.

My honest assessment before any of these posts were made was "wow... considering how bad these optics are, and how people just love punching Debbie in the throat, it's really weird how some of the patriotism which impels the press to do wall-to-wall Russia coverage isn't rubbing off on this."

If this isn't where you want that to be, I don't have a problem accommodating, but I don't think the thought process putting it here is from outer space.

My honest assessment before any of these posts were made was "wow... considering how bad these optics are, and how people just love punching Debbie in the throat, it's really weird how some of the patriotism which impels the press to do wall-to-wall Russia coverage isn't rubbing off on this."

If this isn't where you want that to be, I don't have a problem accommodating, but I don't think the thought process putting it here is from outer space.

Therefore my references to P'Lod. Jr was promised dirt on Hillary and instead was lobbied about adoptions. There is more proof that P'Lod secured victory for Trump than there was collusion with Putin on the release of the Podesta/DNC emails.

Therefore my references to P'Lod. Jr was promised dirt on Hillary and instead was lobbied about adoptions. There is more proof that P'Lod secured victory for Trump than there was collusion with Putin on the release of the Podesta/DNC emails.

In terms of the possibilities, provable collusion of Trump and Putin on the release of the emails is extremely unlikely.

As far as Junior is concerned, I think it's complicated, but not because he got baited and switched.

If he intended to get dirt, that he failed is for the most part irrelevant. At least, that's how my moral code works.

I'm not religious, but owe religion a debt for giving me the means to unapologetically swipe the idea of "God sees into your heart".

The complicated part is how much he deserves to pay for what was in his heart.

It still seems to me that you guys are taken aback or surprised by the media's behaviour? This sensationalism is not new. The Russia story makes for great media entertainment, and while I still maintain that it is too early to call it a nothing burger, I can definitely see it as more entertaining than it is useful to the American people in the long run.

I mean, worst/best case scenario it leads to a resignation, but a president Pence might actually be more effective than a president Trump in terms of passing legislative and lasting change. Trump reflects a really ugly side to American culture, but this is not disappearing with him out of office.

So, yeah, that Americans are hungry for getting shit done and repairing what seems to be more and more a broken country is not surprising to me. You, CTP?

The Media Research Center analysis is limited. It is important to note that this study was only looking at network evening newscasts from ABC, CBS and NBC.

It doesn’t include Fox or Fox News, CNN, MSNBC or any other cable news channel. It also doesn’t include newspapers or radio or online publications like Politico. On top of that, the analysis only covers about a month (May 17-June 20).

If the leak is staff rebellion as the Post opines, then it's been checked over for truly damaging implications.

I don't think it's a staff rebellion, it's the different factions in the White House battling it out using the press as a tool. There was talk of Priebus and Bannon being forced out in April. Who do you think this is from? “Rebellious staff”? Priebus? Bannon? Nope, I don't think so, you just need to do the math and it's clear who the source of that particular leak was.

I don't think it's a staff rebellion, it's the different factions in the White House battling it out using the press as a tool. There was talk of Priebus and Bannon being forced out in April. Who do you think this is from? “Rebellious staff”? Priebus? Bannon? Nope, I don't think so, you just need to do the math and it's clear who the source of that particular leak was.

I don't think it's a staff rebellion, it's the different factions in the White House battling it out using the press as a tool. There was talk of Priebus and Bannon being forced out in April. Who do you think this is from? “Rebellious staff”? Priebus? Bannon? Nope, I don't think so, you just need to do the math and it's clear who the source of that particular leak was.

The only reason I would even consider the "staff rebellion" idea is because someone at the Post tossed it out, and I imagine they may have the inside scoop.

The story claims that Polifact finds 2 or 3 times more Republican stories to be fake than Democrat. Which is only biased if 2 or 3 times as many Republican stories AREN'T fake news than Democrat stories, so we would need to see the original reports to find out if this is the case.

The first link in the story doesn't actually work, so on to the second... which 404's as well, so, no independent verification.

It's only bias if it's bias.

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The story claims that Polifact finds 2 or 3 times more Republican stories to be fake than Democrat. Which is only biased if 2 or 3 times as many Republican stories AREN'T fake news than Democrat stories, so we would need to see the original reports to find out if this is the case.

If you don't get the problem with selection bias in the first place, there's really nothing to talk about.

"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr

The story claims that Polifact finds 2 or 3 times more Republican stories to be fake than Democrat. Which is only biased if 2 or 3 times as many Republican stories AREN'T fake news than Democrat stories, so we would need to see the original reports to find out if this is the case.

I'm surprised its not more. They live in a fantasy world where every tidbit of news is has to agree with and entertain them at the same time or "its fake".

I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....

Never committed treason though did she? I can understand you hating her, but Trump is so obviously worse in every respect. Its baffling.

Neither did Trump, and your hyperbole doesn't count. Hell, top legal experts aren't even sure what he did was illegal, much less treasonous. What's baffling is how you conflate every little thing you see about Trump into 100x more than it is, merely because of your hate.

"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr

Never committed treason though did she? I can understand you hating her, but Trump is so obviously worse in every respect. Its baffling.

She did by NOT protecting national security data and by her incompetence allowed hackers to get her emails, which had classified info attached. Even after her 'council' advised her to NOT use the outside server. Ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz about her involvement with the Pakistani IT guy, now in custody, and the missing computers.

Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?

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Aug 4, 2017, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by BadKosh

She did by NOT protecting national security data and by her incompetence allowed hackers to get her emails, which had classified info attached. Even after her 'council' advised her to NOT use the outside server. Ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz about her involvement with the Pakistani IT guy, now in custody, and the missing computers.

This would be difficult to do, as the President can release (declassify) anything he/she pleases. So if he uses a weak password and it gets broken, he can just say it was deliberate. And Trump wouldn't have gotten any classified info before being elected, so only the presidential context applies.

Now, if he blabbed and endangered spies in the field, I would personally buy that as mishandling classified info.

The US classification system is for the most part based on various executive orders, and the US President is the ultimate classification authority. During the 2016 campaign some critics of Hillary Clinton were conjecturing how she could ever again receive authorization to have access to classified information were similarly misunderstanding how the classification system worked. Trump could legally declassify the nuclear launch codes tomorrow.

The only real remedy for carelessly or deliberately declassifying information is impeachment as this is a political as opposed to a legal measure.

The LWMSM will do anything to keep the Debbie Wasserman Schultz/Pakistan story to gain traction. Sadly the left isn't too bright and the story is kind of complex. Don't expect the media to get it right anytime soon.